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Redefining bilingualism as a spectrum of experiences that differentially affects brain structure and function

open access: yesProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2019
Significance This study sheds new light on the neuroanatomical adaptations resulting from bilingual language exposure and use, providing crucial insights into untangling the variability of findings in the existing literature. Our results demonstrate that
Vincent DeLuca   +2 more
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Plasticity, Variability and Age in Second Language Acquisition and Bilingualism

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2018
Much of what is known about the outcome of second language acquisition and bilingualism can be summarized in terms of inter-individual variability, plasticity and age.
David Birdsong
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The impact of bilingualism on brain reserve and metabolic connectivity in Alzheimer's dementia

open access: yesProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2017
Daniela Perani   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

Accepting a “New” Standard Variety: Comparing Explicit Attitudes in Luxembourg and Belgium

open access: yesLanguages, 2021
Language maintenance efforts aim to bolster attitudes towards endangered languages by providing them with a standard variety as a means to raise their status and prestige. However, the introduced variety can vary in its degrees of standardisation.
Judit Vari, Marco Tamburelli
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Regulation and Control: What Bimodal Bilingualism Reveals about Learning and Juggling Two Languages

open access: yesLanguages, 2022
In individuals who know more than one language, the languages are always active to some degree. This has consequences for language processing, but bilinguals rarely make mistakes in language selection.
Anne Therese Frederiksen   +1 more
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Monolingual comparative normativity in bilingualism research is out of “control”: Arguments and alternatives

open access: yesApplied Psycholinguistics, 2022
Herein, we contextualize, problematize, and offer some insights for moving beyond the problem of monolingual comparative normativity in (psycho) linguistic research on bilingualism.
J. Rothman   +18 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Bilingual Home Language Boost Through the Lens of the COVID-19 Pandemic

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2021
Usage-based accounts of language acquisition suggest that bilingual language proficiency is dynamic and susceptible to changes in language use. The COVID-19 pandemic led to unprecedented modifications in the language learning environment of developing ...
Li Sheng   +5 more
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Individual and Sociolinguistic Differences in Language Background Predict Stroop Performance

open access: yesFrontiers in Communication, 2022
To examine how differences in language experience and sociolinguistic context impact cognitive control, 146 Spanish-English bilingual participants were tested on a non-linguistic Stroop arrows task.
Max R. Freeman   +3 more
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Comprehension of Mandarin Aspect Markers by Preschool Children With and Without Developmental Language Disorder

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2022
Children with developmental language disorder (DLD) reportedly struggle with the comprehension of aspect. However, since aspect and tense are closely entangled in the languages spoken by the children with DLD in previous studies, it is unclear whether ...
Lijun Chen   +2 more
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